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One thing,
  ---------the panties
  ------------------have to go...

     
C. D. Wright leaves this intimate message in Here that sad body lies with its rubymeated vestibule receiving the breeze. And we further advise that you kick off your shoes and prepare to meet with a lot of furry individuals becauseit's February,  we've been late in coming (as sometimes we're wont to do in bed), but have no doubt about it: there's the rustle of eros in the air!

In this supplement, twenty-two poets penetrate and explore the world of eroticits sensual beginnings and fluid endings, its low-pitched growls, mid-thigh caresses and upper hand jobs. They observed peeping toms behind blinds. They started sleazy dialogues in bars. They got their feet wet. They drew bags of testicles under door knobs. They gathered impressions on car seat covers. They squatted naked over steamed rice. They sneaked inside triple-mirrored dressing rooms. They took home lovemarks on their neck. In short, all had a field day with their submissions.

On a philosophical note: are sexual innuendos, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder? Or are they in the everywhere weaving through your day, waiting for you to notice the double meaning behind every word? In his eye-opening essay, J.T. Best gives a  line- by-line interpretation of After Apple Picking  as a chauvinist lust poem. You will never look at Robert Frost's innocent tuft of white hair the same way again.

As cold cherry on the daring cleavage, Elizabeth P. Glixman presents a close interview with poet/editor, Sean Farragher whose erotic works are featured in this issue.


The Poets

Bambi Barker
Greg Braquet
Patrick Carrington
Sabine DeLuca

Richard Fein
Valerie Fox
Michaela A. Gabriel
Leonard Gontarek

Maryann Hazen Stearns
Quentin B. Huff

Craig Kirchner
Miriam N. Kotzin

Josef Lesser
K.L. Monahan
Jessy Randall
Amber Sawyer

Francis D. Smith

S. Thomas Summers
Karen Suriano
F. Richard Thomas

Jennifer VanBuren

John Vick


Interview with
Sean Farragher
by
Elizabeth P. Glixman


An essay from
J.T.Best
Robert Frost's
After Apple Picking


Before leaving you to thumb through the erotic supplement, we'd like to share this ballad excerpt dating back to the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)which increases our suspicion that erotica has been celebrated ever since Eve first conversed with the snake. Don't forget to wash your hands afterwards. Or drink something warm.

Slowly, slowly she sways her willow waist.

Tenderly, tenderly, he splits the flower heart.

Dew drips into the opening peony.

-- --------------from The Story of the Western Chamber,
    ------------------------------------------------------Wang Shi-fu

Georgia O'Keeffe reproductions courtesy  Artcyclopedia